Tag: Big Banks

S.2155’s biggest giveaways go not to community lenders but to what a Senate aide dubbed stadium banks. “If you can get naming rights to a stadium, you’re not a community bank.”

“At the peak, Countrywide was originating one out of every five mortgages in the country,” said Warren. “And it’s smaller than some banks deregulated by this bill.” Warren added that the stadium banks deregulated in S.2155 received a total of $47 billion in bailout funds directly, and trillions more in loan guarantees and emergency Federal Reserve lending. “The bill says a $200 billion bank should be regulated the same way as a tiny community bank. That’s nuts, and extremely dangerous.”

Today, the Senate will convene at 4:00 p.m. to resume consideration of the S. 2155, the deceptively named “Economic Growth, Regulary Relief and Consumer Protection Act”. . The Leadership Conference, a civil rights coalition, opposes S2155 because it “would undermine one of our nation’s key civil rights laws and weaken consumer protections enacted after the 2008 financial crisis. “This bill guts key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act and would shield 25 of the world’s 38 biggest banks, such as Deutsche Bank and Santander from regulation and roll back key consumer protections.

From Indivisible: “The week of March 5, the Senate is expected to vote on S. 2155, the deceptively named “Economic Growth, Regulary Relief and Consumer Protection Act”. This bill guts key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act and would shield25 of the world’s 38 biggest banks, such as Deutsche Bank and Santander from regulation and roll back key consumer protections. Indivisible has put out an explainer page here. Here are the basic points.

The bill puts us at risk of another crisis. It raises the oversight threshold from $50 billion to $250 billion, exempting 25 of the 38 biggest banks, many of whom received TARP bailout money, from regulation.